One spares old people just as one spares children.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.